Ryan Backs Further Away from Trump

Speaker won't defend or campaign for nominee, he tells colleagues.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) said in a conference call with his GOP House colleagues that he would stop defending Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and wouldn’t campaign with him before the election.

Craig Gilbert, the Journal Sentinel’s Washington bureau chief, points out that the stand is not a big change from what he calls Ryan’s “tepid” endorsement of Trump – but Gilbert characterizes the move as the party’s highest elected official “virtually washing his hands of his nominee.”

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Tom Tolan is managing editor at Milwaukee Magazine, where he's worked since January 2016. He spent 24 years at The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a copy editor, assistant metro editor and reporter. He lives in Shorewood.